Re: Tutoring

[Stan Dodds <dodds@RICE.EDU>]

Ah yes, athletes...  Different rules.

The athletic program supplies unlimited individual tutoring for any
scholarship athlete who wants it. They also outbid us for tutors, but
I guess the tutor earns it.

In the bad old Rice Institute days that Paul mentions, calculus, and
"laboratory science" were absolute requirements for graduation in any
major. Old-timers on the faculty claim that standards were 'adjusted'
for athletes, but at least they had to take the courses. Now rather
few from the major sports appear in science classes.




> Stan Dodds wrote:
>
> > The situation at Rice is similar, although a bit more limited. Option
> > 1 is always available in all classes, and we are small enough that it
> > is practical. Instead of option 2 we offer optional 'tutorial
> > sessions' for beginning courses only, at scheduled times, led by a
> > grad student or advanced undergrad. Option 3 does not exist, to the
> > best of my knowledge. Option 4 is a possibility, but the university
> > will pay for only a few hours per student per semester, and only in
> > intro courses. After that the student is on his/her own.

> Stan,  When I was a graduate student in physics at the Institute in 19 ought
> 51, I was hired as a physics tutor by the athletic dept. The college did not
> lower the academic standards for the football players, but they hired special
> tutors for every knuckle dragger that needed help in physics. Seems like
> times have changed a bit.
>
> poj